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--> FAMILY Leporidae
--> GENUS Sylvilagus
--> SUBGENUS Sylvilagus
SPECIES Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus
| Author: | J. A. Allen, 1890. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3: 160. | | Common Name: | Eastern Cottontail | | Type Locality: | "Sebastian River, Brevard Co.," [Florida, USA]. | | Distribution: | N, C, and W Venezuela (including adjacent islands) and adjacent Colombia through Central America (disjunct in part); to NW Mexico, Arizona, north and east to North Dakota, Minnesota, N Michigan, New York and Massachusetts, Atlantic Coast south and Florida Gulf Coast (USA) west to Mexico; also S Saskatchewan, S Ontario and SC Quebec (C Canada). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Sylvilagus (Gureev, 1964:164). Widely introduced in North America (Hall, 1981:301) and Europe (Flux et al., 1990). Formerly included robustus (Bailey, 1905) and cognatus Nelson, 1907. Ruedas (1998) stated "...at least three of the subspecies [of floridanus] (cognatus, holzneri, and robustus) traditionally ascribed to S. floridanus are of species rank." However, he did not formally raise the first two to full species, as he did for robustus. Reviewed by Chapman et al. (1980, Mammalian Species, 136). See also cognatus and robustus; holzneri is provisionally retained as a subspecies of floridanus, since its relationship to Mexican populations of floridanus have not been reported yet. Allozymes described by Cervantes et al. (1999a). |
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